Sports Coach Primary and Secondary

Job start date: As soon as possible.

Hours per week: 20, term time only

Waverley School,
Yardley Green Road
Bordesley Green
Birmingham
B9 5QA
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Contract type: Permanent

Waverley Education Foundation (WEF) is a Multi Academy Trust, which operates both Waverley School and Waverley Studio College. WEF has over 1900 students on roll across the trust. It develops, brokers and delivers a range of services which support learning and leadership & management and improve outcomes for children and young people.

Waverley School is an all through school for students aged 4-19. It also has a Resource Base for students with cognition and learning difficulties. In its recent Ofsted inspection in September 2021, Waverley School was graded as a ‘Good’ School. The secondary phase of Waverley School has 1174 students including those in the Sixth Form. We have state of the art facilities for learning, teaching and training and a strong staff team that are committed to the learning and development of all our students.

Our core values of Humanity, Equality, Aspiration and Respect support our vision to create a learning community where we work together to achieve excellence in everything we do.

“Pupils have a strong understanding of diversity, respect and tolerance, including for different family lifestyles” – Ofsted 2021.

As part of the exciting growth plans for the School, we are expanding our team to meet future requirements. We are looking for enthusiastic and motivated individual to join our team as a Sports Coach. You will be required to coach sport and recreation activities as assigned to you by the relevant senior staff member on site. You will be responsible for planning structured coaching sessions appropriate to the pupils needs and ensure that the activities offer progressive development towards defined goals, particularly those related to the national curriculum requirements. You will need to ensure that you deliver sport and recreation activities in a safe environment with due regard to Health and Safety recommendations and be able to demonstrate knowledge of accident, incident and emergency procedures. You will need to ensure that you promote equality and fair play in sport and adopt a friendly, professional approach to students and staff alike and be an excellent role model to them. You will need to be highly motivated and passionate about making a difference to the lives of young people, with the ability to inspire and motivate students.

The successful candidate will need to meet the requirements of the person specification in order to be offered the post.

We welcome applications regardless of age, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity or religion.

This post is covered by Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016). Therefore the ability to speak fluent and spoken English is an essential requirement for this role.

Completed applications should be sent to:

Applications received after the closingdate and time will not be considered. If you have not heard from us within 2 weeks of the closing date, please assume that you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.

Only applications submitted on the school application form will be accepted.

This school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff to share this commitment. The successful candidate will be subject to all necessary pre-employment checks, including: enhanced DBS; Childcare Disqualification (where applicable); qualifications (where applicable); medical fitness; identity and right to work.

All applicants will be required to provide two suitable references.

An online search will also be carried out as part of due diligence on all short-listed candidates.

This post is not part of the City Council and the successful candidate will not hold a Birmingham City Council Contract of Employment.

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the amendments to the Exceptions Order 1975, 2013 and 2020. Which means that when applying for certain jobs and activities certain spent convictions and cautions are ‘protected’, so they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account.

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